Happy Thursday, everybody. Hope your week is winding down well. Again, we're centering ourselves

in self-care, rest, and pleasure and joy. Man, what a week it's been. Lots going on. The news is

definitely not dull, though it never seems to be these days. We got a great action-pack show plan for you.

As always, a question of the night. It's up on our

Lovelin IG page, so waiting on that. And the DMs, they are always open, but let's get into

some news. Look, this stuff just doesn't stop. Elon Musk, I didn't get to cover this, but he revealed

well, he at first basically said that he was working on something that was going to literally

blow everyone's mind, very controversial, and he revealed a working prototype of what he calls

his neuralink brain chip.

So basically, ready for this one?

It's like a fit bit in your skull with tiny wires.

Yep.

He put it out there, used it on a pig.

I'm personally not a fan of animal testing. For me, it's a, you know, an inappropriate form of violence. But putting that aside to talk about the new story itself, how you all feel about that? Where technology is now becoming something that's more permanent, surgical, and implanted in us. I personally, look, I'm not a ludite. I'm not

afraid of technology and technological advancements. I think that it's a very stunning,

beautiful thing. Look at all the things technology is brought to us. And if I look specifically

in my world with psychology and sex and relationality, it's really brought people together,

helped people stay together.

You know, I've said it before, but what would COVID have been like had we not had technology

where we could text, FaceTime, share videos, even art and music. People are now able to produce

their own music in their basements. They don't need record companies. They don't need publishers.

They can put their work out there. It's giving people employment, access. It's also a major point for education, which upsets academia. But, you know, I'm one of those people that's always said. I appreciate knowledge that comes from many different sources. And academia is just one of many. And oftentimes, academia can be classist or racist. Textbooks and college is very expensive. And so it can come from

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